She stood trembling before the mirror hands clasped together shaking wringing cold sweat dripping off her brow leaving trails along swollen pink flushed cheeks her body wracked with tremors muscles uncontrollable having a dance and a mind of their own to her dismay her insides in turmoil as her intestinal walls fought with one another rolling punching gut wrenching kicks her heart rate increasing as the reality of the disease sets in upon her ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~ He drives along the coast watching the waves crash upon litter riddled beaches pulls off into the turn~about hands grasping the steering wheel white knuckled blood drains from his face stomach drops to the floor by his feet trembling suspended above the brake pedal beads of sweat form drenching his hundred dollar silk shirt tie feels tighter strangling strangling strangling suffocating bowels ache for release the disease churns inside him ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~ She holds the child to her breast watching him suckle the milk of life drawn from her with each pull filling his stomach with the disease inside his mothers milk for what resides in the mother is passed on to her child through sweetened sugar fluids A child raising a child holding him against dampened sweaty flesh trembling shaking exhausted he lays his head in the crook of her arm to hear her heart beat as she looks down to him she feels the disease progressing her uterus contracts as the nurses massage and the IV drips into her sickened veins she cries bloody tears as the room is emptied and the child is torn from her breast she lies down and lets the disease overtake her.... ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~ She sits in the back of the classroom fidgeting beneath her desk her legs bouncing subconciously hands clammy and sore pressing her nails into her palms until the blood rises to the surface leaving reminders of how far the disease has prgressed... she looks around the room feeling the eyes spearing her staring staring laughing at her mocking her enjoying the stage of her sickness the boy behind her tapes a sign upon her back that reads ~~FREAK~~ The teacher talks of Pearl Harbor suprise attacks and death as she sits dreaming of a wayward missile to crash into the school room and blow her to bits before the disease can further its havok upon her system and mind..... ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~ He holds the blade to his caurotid as he watches the blood fall to the floor from shredded wrists the disease has progressed pushing him to insanity head reeling eyes misting spine chilling stomach in knots tremors and convulsions the voices speak to him he hears death whispering calling him to listen to the disease his cell phone rings startling him as he lay upon blood stained sheets where his mother will soon find him ring ring ring caller ID shows it is the doctor his prescription is ready to fight this "cancer" and ease the pain little green pills little numbers and letters imprinted on each take one a day to lessen the effects to ease the pain to pretend knowing full well it is deadly he has decided to rid himself of the disease remedy the situation himself and not die at the hands of DOUBT